Rob Lowe, Ginnifer Goodwin to Play JFK and First Lady Jackie in NatGeo's Killing Kennedy

Parks and Recreation prince Rob Lowe and Once Upon a Time princess Ginnifer Goodwin have been tapped to portray President John F. Kennedy and First Lady “Jackie” in NatGeo’s Killing Kennedy, a factual drama based on the novel by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

À la NatGeo’s Killing Lincoln, which was based on O’Reilly/Dugard’s first collaboration and this past President’s Day Weekend earned record ratings for the cabler, Killing Kennedy will track JFK and his one-day assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the years leading up to that fateful motorcade through Dallas in 1963.

Oswald has yet to be cast, but Gossip Girl’s Michelle Trachtenberg will play his Russian wife Marina.

Lowe, who this past Sunday “raised eyebrows” as Liberace’s plastic surgeon in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra, previously walked the White House on The West Wing. Goodwin’s other TV credits include Big Love.

Production on Killing Kennedy is set to start next month in Richmond, Va., with an eye on a late-2013 premiere.

Jack and Bobby were attractive and had serious sex appeal. Agree about the Kennedy women, and some of the wives looked like that too. But not Jackie. She had style and class out the wazoo and was pretty to boot. She was graciousness personified and that was impressive at her young age.

Hollywood doesn’t have any original stories… They must go back to what is ‘tried and tested’ or what has been done a million and one times before. Beside just watch the ratings will be good because Americans and even those abroad have a deep fascination with the Kennedys and JFK’s assassination.

Mmh, like both actors but not sure about casting them in those roles. Doesn’t really work in my head, but might be swayed by the final product of course. I do agree that it’s a topic that’s pretty overdone though.

JFK was really only beloved because he was assassinated. Check your history and facts. People seem to over look or forget that fact that he lead the pathway to the esculation of Viet Nam. Also was not really involve in Civil Rights like people think he was.

Butters, Maybe you’re right about the politics, but as a child to see the assasination of your President leaves a big impression, at least it did to me..Remembering his kids being close to my age losing their dad, that was about all I understood at that time.